Mariano Luque} is a Full Professor in Quantitative Methods in Economics since 2015 in the Department of Applied Economics (Mathematics), University of Málaga, Spain. He holds a degree in Mathematics (1995) with an academic average score of 9 out of 10, a Bachelor Thesis in Mathematics (1997) and a PhD in Quantitative Methods in Economics (2000). His research is focused on multiobjective optimization techniques, especially interactive methods, reference point-based methods, interval programming and evolutionary algorithms. He is also working on applications in the fields of education economics, workers’ satisfaction, electricity generation and sustainability issues, etc. He has published about 50 papers in JCR journals such as Evolutionary Computation, Swarm and Evolutionary Computation, European Journal of Operational Research, Applied Soft Computing, Computers and Operations Research, Omega, Management Science, etc. He has given several talks at different national and international universities such as the University of Manchester, University of Jyvaskyla, University of Valencia, etc. He has participated and led numerous national and regional research projects, including the current research group OPTECO (Optimization and Econometrics) of the University of Malaga.